Lily King: ‘I couldn’t get past the first 20 pages of Pride and Prejudice’

The Women’s prize-shortlisted author on being obsessed with Judy Blume, hating Jane Austen at first, and the joys of Tove Jansson My earliest reading memory The Little Engine That Could. My mom used to read it to me at night and then one day I could read it myself. I read it over and over in bed, the story of a valiant little train making it over the mountain when all the bigger ones refused. The thrill of that never got old. I must have been four. My favourite book growing up I was rea...

By Lily King